Beatrice A. Vieyra

Beatrice A. Vieyra wrote a cookbook with Anglo-Indian recipes at the start of the twentieth century.

She was a female cookbook writer with practical ideas about how to combine British tastes and eating habits with local ingredients.

Her book Culinary art sparklets: a treatise on general household information and practical recipes for cooking in all its branches (Madras: Vest, 1915)[1] has recipes that blend local spices with simple everyday dishes such as hard-boiled eggs.

Her book was dedicated to Lady Pentland on the occasion of her visit to Travancore, a state in India.

Her recipes have been cited by historian David Burton in his study of food habits The Raj at table: a culinary history of the British India (London: Faber and Faber, 1993) and by Helen Saberi and David Burnett in their book The road to Vindaloo.